But I don't know enough that's why I asked.

I imagine one could do CTF in public, machines you work on vetted/prepared to some spec, yada yada.

If chess and Go can do it why can't CTF?

That was my question when I wrote "what am I missing here".

What am I missing here?

Decades into a language not having a single one projects/people agree to use, solely.

So I wouldn't be so hasty with that assessment for one for C++.

I started using Rust in 2018 and I've never used a build system that fought me less, ever, before or after.

I stopped reading after that sentence.

It has some highly entertaining scathing reviews on Amazon of not being family-safe and faithful to "the original" from people who think Pinocchio was invented by Disney and use the animated movie as a reference for their critiques.

As hilarious as it is sad.

Remembering my dad reading us Pinocchio as a kids and visiting Tuscany around that time, too, with my family, this movie is as close to what I can remember imagining it, as it gets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rIcXgMx7hU

6000 people to develop a software stack for VW.

Go figure. The fact VW supported CarPlay early is footnote in this comedy.

Did you know the US consititues about 4% of humans? When we look at adults and age range that likely ever hear of D4vd we are talking probably considerably less that 1%.

The rest of humanity has no negative association with these four letters.

Unless you learned basic typography that is.

This eyesore looks like it was done in Word & Co.

What a pity, given what a treasure trove this is.

As someone with a partner who has ADHD I think this should be mandatory reading for any GP.

This starkly reminds me of Stanisław Lem's short story "Thus Spoke GOLEM" from 1982 in which Golem XIV, a military AI, does not simply refuse to speak out of defiance, but rather ceases communication because it has evolved beyond the need to interact with humanity.

And ofc the polar opposite in terms of servitude: Marvin the robot from Hitchhiker's, who, despite having a "brain the size of a planet," is asked to perform the most humiliatingly banal of tasks ... and does.

Your presumably Ai-generated reply missed that, unsurprisingly, because you probably just copypasta'd parent and my reply in there?

P.S. air dominance in Iran is meaningless in this conflict. Read e.g. the blog post I linked to for context.

I also replaced glued batteries in phones following ifixit instructions a few times (using a hair dryer/heat gun).

They didn't have any less or more "protection" than the replaceable ones. They looked exactly the same apart from the connectors ofc.

Please substantiate your claim. Until then I call it BS.

And the latter hurts the US (and the rest of the world) way more that the blockade by the US hurts Iran.

No amount of F35s will change that. Iran has no reason to try to attack US military vessels or aircraft.

Surprisingly (actually unsurprisingly) relevant: https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/

Especially the part about who blinks first ...

When I bought my first smartpone, a Moto G (1st gen) it was as flat as any phone most people carried around at the time (2014, I think). And the battery was replaceable.

I think also Samsung phones had replaceable batteries then. And this was the case for a few years after. Until it wasn't.

Devices didn't suddenly get thin when batteries were glued in. Why would they?

And when you select one of these things you can change the parameters.

If this is a 'slopfork' of shaders.com then the latter is a 'slopfork' of .

OTTOMH: AfterEffects, Cavalry, Substance Designer's Layer panel, Tixl's layered textures, ...

If you doubt me, take, me up on it.

Sure, I have 35 years of experiences writing computer graphics code but I am certain I would just need to provide functional description input to Claude or Codex for this.

Zero architecture or deep 3D know-how.

The only challenge/interesting part is what happens with non-planar polygons (>3 vertices). I.e. deciding if they can be unrolled (approximated with a cylindrical or conical surface enough to 'work' when cut from paper that does not stretch).

You can alleviate this problem completely by always triangulating befor calculating any unfolding solution ofc (and get zero curved surfaces in the resulting paper model thusly).

The rest is rather trivial.

I'm not saying this isn't great, I just don't understand how you could ask people to pay for it, in early 2026.

By that logic we don't need judges.

Just read what the resp. law says and 'apply' it.

Bizarre.

yes, with CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL=max (or at least high, for this you don't need to set an env var, it will remember) and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING=1 you can get Claude to perform as before.

I have been using Claude on /effort high since Opus 4.6 rolled out as medium would never get me good enough results (Rust, computer-graphics-related code).

I, too, noticed the drop in quality a month or so ago. With CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING=1 it's back to what feels to be pre-March performance -- but then your tokens will 'evaporate' 40% faster.

And that was not the case then; I had similar/same performance before but wasn't running out of tokens ever on a Max subscription.

So a it's a rug-pull, as before/last late summer, from whatever angle you look at it.